Freedom to print things and publish things. It is not a freedom for what we now refer to institutionally as the press. Lectures in history, on American History tv on cspan 3. Every saturday, at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. In 1848 a convention was held in seneca falls, new york to discuss the state of womens rights in the country. The gathering was seen by many as the beginning of the womans Suffrage Movement. However, it took until 1920, over 72 years later, for women to earn the right to vote. During those years organizations such as the National American womans Suffrage Association, and National Womans Party would form. Creating a national movement. Yet it was women in every community who led the effort in their towns and states to demand rights. Through the work of cspan cities tour well introduce you to some of these women who dedicated their lives to this cause. From a prosuffrage newspaper publisher
Through the work of cspans city tours, well introduce you to some of these women. Youll learn why western territories and states were on the leading edge of the movement and youll hear how a letter from a mother to her son would help lead to the ratification of the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote. We begin in syracuse new york where we talk about Lucretia Mott. Lucretia mott is the most important white female abolitionist and one of the most important women in American History. Yet, shes not received the same amount of historical attention as someone like Elizabeth Cady stanton. Shes not a household name. My biography of Lucretia Mott is titled Lucretia Motts heresy. And the heresy refers to her own activist strategy. He always said to other activists, we must agitate. He advised reformers to stand out in our heresy, to confront social injustices, political injustices, legal injustices, and not be afraid to be labeled an iniffidel or nonconformist. And thats what Lucreti
Of the 19th amendment. She shows how the movement intersected with the abolitionists and temperance movements. This is the first of a twopart program. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the National Portrait gallery as the smithsonian institution. Im Kate Clarke Lemay and im the curator of votes for women. For this exhibition, i worked about 3 1 2 years, researching, teaching myself this history and finding all the objects. In the exhibition, we had about 124 objects of which there are 63 portraits and in curating the exhibition, i was hoping to commemorate the 19th amendment and tell the history of the 19th amendment and how women lobbied to get this amendment passed and ratified. But also ask questions about it and ask what does it do and what does it not do . And why 1965 and the Voting Rights acts is considered another sort of part two of the 19th amendment . So if youll follow me, im going to take you through the exhibition and show you a few of the objects that tell this history. So lets g
It will be nice today and then get ready tomorrow evening. Into thursday. For those who work outside, i would make a plan b for probably thursday, friday and maybe even into saturday. We have a good day though for visibility and for air quality today. David cordova says mount diablo in the distance as seen from sfo. The visibility is sparkling, unlimited today. Snow on many of the peaks. Even around the hills of sunol. That was the system that brought the hail to sacramento and along the 680 corridor. Mainly to the east. It was quite a show there. It has since moved off to central and Southern California out of the picture but it will be a huge event for Southern California today. A good line already went through l. A. Palo alto, sunnyvale, upper 30s. Half moon bay at 38. Santa rosa is at 35. If you have the breeze, it is a cold one. A lot of 33s. Even union city is in there. Now san carlos at 39. This is a big deal out to the valley. Contra costa county, it has been kicking up its hee
[ no audio ] reporter across belgium, a moment of silence for the 31 People Killed and 300 others injured in tuesdays terror attacks. I remember seeing an explosion. The whole time i was just in shock. I told myself, im going to make it, im going to make it. Reporter the manhunt for those responsible now expanding. Police looking for the airport bomber and now a suspect shown in surveillance images along with one of the suicide bombers inside the subway station just before the attack. And new questions about an apparent failure of intelligence involving ibrahim, the terrorist to carry out the airport attack. He was detained last year in turkey, then deported by to europe. Police now saying he left a suicide note, saying he was in a rush, no longer knowing what to do, and if he did not act immediately, he would be in a prison cell. Investigators believe it is a reference to Salah Abdeslam, one of the suspects of the paris attacks captured just last week. While his attorney denies any co